Stock trading still halted - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Stock trading still halted - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
For the first time in the modern era, the nation's stock markets will remain closed for at least three consecutive trading days--and may not reopen until Monday, stock exchange officials said Wednesday. Richard Grasso, chairman and chief executive of

Egypt's Pioneers reports H1 profit of $49.9 mln - Reuters
CAIRO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Egyptian investment bank Pioneers Holding PIOH.CA made a consolidated net profit of 265.1 million Egyptian pounds ($49.9 million) in the first half of 2008, the stock exchange said on Sunday. The profit compared with 74.7

School choice proves popular with Swedes - Philadelphia Inquirer
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Schools run by private enterprise? Free iPods and laptop computers to attract students? It may sound out of place in Sweden, that paragon of taxpayer-funded cradle-to-grave welfare. But a sweeping reform of the school system has

Deutsche Boerse 2Q profit up 18 percent - Boston Globe
BERLIN— German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse AG has reported an 18 percent rise in second-quarter profit, hitting a new record for the first half of the year. The Frankfurt-based operator of the DAX-30 index and derivatives exchange Eurex

Cablevision stock up as 2Q revenue jumps 9.2 percent - Newsday
Buoyed by higher than expected growth across its core cable business, Cablevision Systems Corp. yesterday said second-quarter revenue jumped 9.2 percent to $1.71 billion, while net income slid 70 percent to $98.3 million. The results, combined with

LSE Group outlines new equity price list; to be cheapest trading venue - Forbes
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - London Stock Exchange Group Plc. Friday outlined its new price list for trading services, effective September 1, and said the exchange will become the cheapest trading venue in Europe for major users. The new pricing

Peru Proves Market Loser as South America's Top-Growing Economy - Bloomberg
Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The fastest economic growth and the cheapest stocks in South America aren't enough to lure Wall Street to Peru, where only four companies on the nation's stock exchange trade more than $1 million a day. The benchmark Lima

UPDATE 1-Hong Kong-listed Foxconn plans Taiwan listing - CNBC
TAIPEI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The new chairman of Taiwan's stock exchange said on Friday Hong Kong-listed Foxconn International <2038.HK> intends to issue Taiwan depository receipts (TDRs) to tap the domestic capital market. "If we have companies like

SHOP-PING $PREE - New York Post
The credit crunch has become so disabling that after more than three decades as a strictly private-equity powerhouse, billionaires Henry Kravis and George Roberts may be looking to diversify. The two, whose Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. operation